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Jun. 8th, 2010 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reynardoWill you please git married, as long as I am married. My dear, you know the Lord knows both of our hearts. You know it never was our wishes to be separated from each other, and it never was our fault.
Imagine you were married, but you were both slaves. Imagine that then the pair of you were separated, and did not see each other for years, not even sure that the other was still alive. And then imagine, once the Civil War was over and you managed to get back in contact - only to find your husband had remarried...
Ta-Nehisi Coates brings us the letter. I cannot read it without wanting to cry.
Imagine you were married, but you were both slaves. Imagine that then the pair of you were separated, and did not see each other for years, not even sure that the other was still alive. And then imagine, once the Civil War was over and you managed to get back in contact - only to find your husband had remarried...
Ta-Nehisi Coates brings us the letter. I cannot read it without wanting to cry.
